Exploring Character’s Internal Conflict with References to Stephan Crane’s Novel Red Badge of Courage

Abstract

This study aimed at studying the novel of Stephen Crane of the Red Badge of courage in the internal conflict of the hero of this story. And what is the internal conflict Stephen Crane in this novel explained the psychologist study of the mind of the youth, Henry Fleming who faces death of the first time. He becomes frightened in battle and runs away. Later he overcomes his fright and fights bravely and well. Thus Crane concern and tells two stories, one, of the outer action of Henry before and during the battle, and the other, the effect of this action on his mind and emotions. He successful in facing the two planes of the story into one unified impression. The first chapter contains an introductory presentation. The second chapter is about literature review. The third chapter is a methodology it about the descriptive and corroborative of the book. The fourth chapter contains the analysis. And finally there is a conclusion and summary and the study gives some recommendations and suggestion for further studies.